future on Sundays at 3.00pm concerts 17 July: Heath Quartet Tickets for other concerts in Mozart, Bartók, Beethoven the 2016 season can be 31 July: Quartetto Rossi bought or reserved from Haydn, Beethoven Pauline at the Box Office table, during the interval or 14 August: André Trio piano trio at the end of the concert Mendelssohn, Fauré, Beethoven today. 28 August: Charles Owen piano Bach, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel 11 September: Callino Quartet, Anna Dennis soprano & Alasdair Beatson piano Webern, Schoenberg, Brahms patrons Mr T.E.Allen, Peter Baker & Kate Hutchon, Sir Jeremy & s Lady Blackham, Rachel Booth & Clare Webb, Philip Britton & e m We regret to record, since l Tom Southern, Mr & Mrs Roger Cooper, Prof.MJ & o the end of the preceding H a season, the death of Wilfred Dr CHG Daunton, Paul Fincham, Judith Foord, Shirley Fry, d n i Dukes, Julian Gardner and Tony Gelsthorpe & Gill Bracey, Carole & Simon Haskel, L Geoffrey Kirkham: all David Heckels, Andrew Johnston, Julia Josephs, Susan Kodicek & committed concertgoers and Judith Harrad, David & Deirdre Mintz, Dr & Mrs Ivan Moseley, long-term supporters of John & Gloria Nottage, Judith Payne, Donald & Jean Peacock, St Mary’s Church, Cratfield Concerts at Cratfield. 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NICHOLAS DANIEL oboe and cor anglais box office & Box office: Pauline Graham mailing list telephone 01728 603 077 email [email protected] This concert is supported by a gift from a Patron concerts at Presented by Blyth Valley Chamber Music cratfield registered charity 1019300 www.concertsatcratfield.org.uk Concerts at Cratfield Blyth Valley Chamber Music since last Many concertgoers will know that in December 2015 thieves Shostakovich, String quartet no 11: the obvious choice is our season stole about four tonnes of lead from the roof of St Mary’s, mostly own Carducci on Signum Classics, who recorded nos 4, 8 and from above the North Aisle. None has been recovered, but good 11 in 2014 in readiness for their ‘Shostakovich year’. An detective work may lead to a prosecution against at least some of interesting alternative is the Pacifica Quartet from the usa, who the gang. The bill for repair, however, was far beyond the level of on a two-disc set couple Shostakovich nos 9-12 with the Quartet insurance and the limited resources of the church itself. Many no 6 by his Soviet contemporary Mieczslaw Weinberg – at generous supporters stepped in, including Concerts at Cratfield, medium price from Cedille. with individual donations and a superb fundraising concert at Mozart, Oboe quartet: at budget price from Hyperion Helios, The Cut in Halesworth in April 2016. At that concert, we heard the always reliable Gaudier Ensemble also offer Mozart’s Horn Don Peacock announce on behalf of St Mary’s pcc that the quintet k407, the wonderful Quintet for piano and winds k452 restoration work would all be completed – and in lead, the best (with Susan Tomes piano) and a seldom performed Quintet material – by the start of our 2016 season. Both the parish and movement in f k580b; but this may soon be available only for Concerts at Cratfield have also benefitted greatly from the selling download. exhibition Jack Stephenson organised, in Saxmundham, of wood engravings by our much missed Founder Patron Linda Holmes. David Matthews, The Flaying of Marsyas: an all-Matthews cd Today therefore marks a happy conclusion to all these efforts and from Metronome by the Brindisi Quartet (with Nicholas Daniel) a church fully restored. also includes two of his string quartets. elena langer To mark the occasion – and profiting from having Nicholas Beethoven, String quartet op 95 (‘Serioso’): there are many b 1974 Daniel with us for the first time – we had the idea of starting our recommendable sets of recordings of Beethoven quartets, of which season with a newly composed fanfare for solo oboe, which can recent frontrunners include the Takács at full price on Decca and Fanfare for a new roof do celebratory just as well as it can do plangent or seductive. the Belcea (recorded in live performances at Snape) at medium (2016) Given our happy and long-standing relationship with composer price on Zig-Zag Territoires. The Takács treat op 95 as the earliest About 2 minutes Elena Langer, she was the obvious choice. In less than two days, of the ‘late quartets’ on three discs; the Belcea mix quartets from we had the score. all periods in each four-disc volume, with op 95 in vol 1. About the work, the composer adds: In our experience, two companies offer a good range of stock, The piece is lively and virtuosic. It starts in the oboe’s lowest keen prices and efficient service for buying classical cds online register and gradually climbs up to the very top (the roof!). I in the uk: www.mdt.co.uk worked a very short quotation from Beethoven's overture The www.prestoclassical.co.uk Consecration of the House (1822) into one of the fast passages! The fastest delivery to Suffolk may come from Prelude Records This is therefore the fanfare’s very first public performance. in Norwich: www.preluderecords.co.uk,who are equally helpful on the phone: 01603 620 170. our new We open our new season with a concert featuring the fourth season visit to Cratfield of the Carducci. They are joined by Nicholas Daniel, whom we are delighted to welcome to Cratfield for the first time. cds on sale From the Box Office table you can buy the new cd of music by Elena Langer, Landscape with Three People. Its title Three further concerts this season feature a string quartet: the work is the song cycle commissioned by Concerts at Heath, the Quartetto Rossi on gut strings (replacing the London Cratfield and first performed at St Mary’s in 2013. Richard Haydn Quartet) and the Callino in the final concert, joined by Morrison in The Times gave the disc four stars, specially Anna Dennis soprano and Alasdair Beatson piano. The remaining mentioningAnna Dennis soprano, William Towers two offer a young piano trio from France (but with Suffolk countertenor and Nicholas Daniel oboe. connections) and an ingeniously constructed solo piano recital We also hope to have other cds on sale, featuring Nicholas from a Cratfield regular, Charles Owen. 2 7 Daniel and the Carducci. Marsyas’ blood becoming a river, ‘on the banks of which grew today’s The Carducci String Quartet, long established as one of the reeds, from which men made oboes; so his music continues’. performers finest quartets based in the uk, are Cratfield regulars, last playing for us in 2013. In September 2015 they offered a rare Edited extracts from a note for the Leicester International chance to hear all the Shostakovich quartets at the Jubilee Hall Music Festival © Mike Wheeler 2013. in Aldeburgh, as part of their international celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the composer’s death. They even ludwig van Although some commentators treat this quartet as one of performed all fifteen quartets in one day at the Sam Wanamaker beethoven Beethoven’s ‘late quartets’, it actually sits on its own – more Theatre in London: a rare feat of concentration and endurance. 1770-1827 than a decade before op 127 and one year after another ‘singleton’ among quartets, op 74 in e flat (‘The Harp’). The Nicholas Daniel launched his musical career by becoming BBC String quartet in F minor bilingually titled Quartett serioso therefore fits between his Young Musician of the Year at 18; he is now the doyen of British op 95 (‘Serioso’) (1810) major works of 1809 – the Piano concerto no5 (‘The Emperor’) oboists, playing as soloist with orchestras and chamber groups Allegro con brio and three piano sonatas opp 78, 79 and 81a (‘Les Adieux’) – internationally and also increasingly active as a conductor (he Allegretto non troppo – and the ‘Archduke’ piano trio of 1811, followed in turn the next plays and directs the Britten Sinfonia in his recent cd of the year by the Seventh and Eighth symphonies. Perhaps because of Vaughan Williams and MacMillan concertos, Editor’s Choice in Allegro assai vivace ma the bleakness of the piece – Misha Donat calls it ‘terse and Gramophone and winner of a bbc Music Magazine Première serioso austere’ – the composer withheld publication for six years and Award). He is also Artistic Director of the Leicester Larghetto espressivo – said that it was never to be performed in public. International Music Festival and is featured on the new allegretto agitato – Harmonia Mundi cd of music by Elena Langer, Landscape with The quartet does at moments sound like ‘Beethoven’s private allegro Three People, on sale at the concert today; its title work is a workshop’ (Joseph Kerman), opening with an initial unison Cratfield-commissioned song cycle from 2013. About 20 minutes outburst, a rest, and then a completely contrasting idea; conventional linking passages are absent, and the exposition is wolfgang The background and date of this standalone slow movement for not repeated. The second movement opens with a famous amadeus four instruments are both murky, but there is no doubt that it is unaccompanied cello scale downwards which introduces d mozart authentic Mozart, inhabiting the same hushed and intense major – in traditional terms an extreme contrast to the f minor 1756-1791 sound-world as his later motet Ave Verum Corpus k 618.